Annoying Character of the Day

Welcome to the Annoying Character of the Day, the bastard cousin of the OCD and the new Stars column which shifts our focus from peripheral players to those nails-down-a-chalkboard characters that plague our movie-loving experience. If you have an idea for an ACD, send it in!

And the ACD doesn't have to be obscure; it could be as popular as Misery's resident cock-a-doodie nut Annie or as irritating as Jar-Jar Binks. Our first ACD, Transformers's Wheelie, gets some company with another '80s cartoon staple: Snarf from ThunderCats.

This bastard feline, a combination of a purring throw pillow and a creature the world of Rainbow Brite forgot, earned his claim to fame as Lion-O's childhood pet. As he became older, and thus more annoying, Snarf's purpose became "questionable". Hell, even Lion-O didn't want the fur ball around. But, apparently Third Earth's laws are lax when it comes to pet euthanasia. For Lion-O decided to let Snarf participate in ThunderCat missions, for reasons we suspect align somewhere near the hope that an accidental sword swipe here, or Mumm-Ra claw slash there, would result in Lion-O not having to get his hands bloody.

Too bad we will never know for sure. But if the planned ThunderCats movie ever gets made, we hope to see Snarf get his just desserts on the big screen. At the very least, his existence supports what Bob Barker's been saying all along: Have your pets spayed and neutered. One less Snarf in the world makes geekdom a better place.